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Hi everyone, İ wanna ask a question.if patient is fully edentoleus and hasn’t got any removable prosthesis.And İ’m planning to do fixed or removable prosthesis. And I don’t know if there is sufficient restoring space.İs there any easy way to measure or should ı make a wax rim and measure with it?Because i have to know if ı need to do some bone reduction or not?
Jedediah and Ivan2 Comments-
Hello Berat! I apologize for the delay here! Yesterday was absolutely nuts for me!
This is a great question! I can explain what I do.
1. Take an alginate impression, send to lab to get wax rims.
2. With the wax rims, I do the usuall rim adjustment and occlusal records of VDO. Send to lab for a tooth set up.
3. When you get your tooth set up, you can measure how thick it is. You can even just have the laboratory make you the “immediate denture” at this point so you can measure the thickness. If it is very thin, then it means you need to do alveoplasty to gain the thickness required.
Depending on what your plan is: overdenture, all on x, and considering what materials you will use, you can decide how much space you need.
All this is dependant on proper technique for taking VDO.
I would love to look at this case closer with you! If you have x rays, photos, models, post them on here so we can all help you out 🙂
I am sure many others are wondering the same thing!
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Thank you Ivan for great explanation.I didn’t ask for any specific case.I just wanted to learn.Thank you again
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